Toshiba has warned of a serious problem affecting the memory modules in many of its laptop models. In an announcement on Friday, the company said that flaw could cause a PC to lock up or crash via the ...

In the face of increasing competition from the likes of Dell, Hewlett-Packard and IBM, industrial giant Toshiba lost significant share in the US laptop market and fell to the fifth spot by late 2004.

The US Consumer Product Safety Commission has issued a recall of more than 100,000 Panasonic-branded battery packs that shipped with 39 models of Toshiba laptops sold between June 2011 and January ...